Quotes About Pessimism

It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.

You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it's just a shithole.

Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are.

You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.

Biographers who admire Marx and seek to cover for him will want to ignore his poetry among his corpus of writings. They should nonetheless bristle at what they see in Marx's poetry. They will encounter what Paul Johnson discerned: "Savagery is a characteristic note of his verse, together with the intense pessimism of the human condition, hatred, a fascination with corruption and violence, suicide pacts and pacts with the devil."82

I find everything demoralizing,' Dennis said.

The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Mental Filter. You pick out a negative detail in any situation and dwell on it exclusively, thus perceiving that the whole situation is negative.

Overgeneralization. You generalize from some specific flaw, failure, or mistake to your entire self. Or you may generalize the way you feel right now, or some negative experience you've just had, to the future.

Mental Filtering. You filter out or ignore the positives and focus entirely on the negatives. It's like a drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.

But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

It is not nor it cannot come to good.

O pessimista vê dificuldade em toda oportunidade. O otimista vê oportunidade em toda dificuldade.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He

The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.